Revising & Editing

Editorial road-mapping begins with a challenge of willpower and ends with a battle-plan for transforming your manuscript into the book you dreamed it could be. Let editor Kris Spisak give you that map!

The Writer's Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so we started this series to help identify them for other writers (along with correction strategies). This week's writing mistake is revising while writing.

The Writer's Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so we started this series to help identify them for other writers (along with correction strategies). This week's writing mistake is refraining to revise writing.

Editor Jennifer Haupt delivers the top tools for creating a cohesive and engaging anthology that writers will be excited to be a part of and readers will fall in love with.

Help your freelance writing land better with editors and increase your chances of getting published with these 11 proven tips for self-editing.

In this post, Kris Spisak shares 5 novel editing questions to ask before any next steps in the publishing process, including "does your story have a strong narrative drive," "is your protagonist too passive," and more.

Mackenzie Belcastro addresses writers who are despairing over their early drafts, highlighting five ways you can persevere and discover your story within them.

The rewrite is tougher than the draft. But the right rewrite strengthens your fiction into something that lasts to publication and gains a significant readership. Boost your novel-polishing skills with these seven strategies.

Learning how to catch wrong-word errors will help you prevent them and correct them while you're proof reading your work.

Here are 26 important items you should check when copy editing and proofreading your manuscript.

For every way our first drafts fail, they get us farther down the road to success. Here's what you can learn from your first draft.

As a longtime nonfiction book and magazine editor, Debbie Harmsen has given notes on revising numerous manuscripts and articles. Here's what all writers should know.

Here are a few things to consider after you’ve written your first love—uh—I mean draft.

I strongly recommend bloggers to turn off the autocorrect on your phone. And here are 10 reasons to assure you.

Writing is about getting down to it, about finding your way into the moment and sustaining the energy for as long as you can effectively. But the REAL writing is during revision.

There are important benefits of writing a novel or memoir from beginning to end before going back and starting again. Here are seven of them that you should know.

Most manuscripts start out a little messy. Try these thoughtful approaches to polishing your prose.